NS Gemeinschaft Kraft durch Freude was a German NSDAP-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany. It was part of the German Labour Front, the national labour organization at that time. Set up in November 1933 as a tool to promote the advantages of Nazism to the German people and internationally, while also being utilized to ease the process of the rearmament of Germany. It was also intended to compensate for the poor increases in wages and for the loss of trade union rights. Through its structure of organized events and promotion of propaganda, it was also intended to prevent dissident and anti-state behavior. By 1939, it had become the world's largest tourism operator.
Head of KdF, Robert Ley
Dancing class of the KdF, 1933
Prora, an unfinished KdF resort
Poster promoting an N.S. Reich Symphony Orchestra performance
The German Labour Front was the national labour organization of the Nazi Party, which replaced the various independent trade unions in Germany during the process of Gleichschaltung or Nazification.
Uniforms for leaders of the German Labour Front, 1943